EKM Corporation Signs Teaming Agreement with SAIC
EKM Corporation, an award-winning Knowledge Management firm and a leader in Electronic Laboratory Notebooks, has teamed with Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC), a world leader in providing outsourcing and IT services. This teaming agreement matches a leading lab notebook vendor with an expert in global rollout support.
EKM’s Electronic Laboratory Notebook (ELN) and Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) business is expanding its global market to major pharmaceutical, chemical and medical device companies. SAIC is a preeminent, worldwide services firm with a rapidly growing commercial business supporting the scientific market.
“The decision to commit a company’s research and intellectual property management to an electronic system is a major commitment,” stated Stewart Larson, EKM CEO. “One critical factor is the assurance of continued enterprise support both during rollout and thereafter.”
With SAIC having the resources and over 150 worldwide locations, Larson believes that this relationship will provide EKM clients with “top shelf” support services.
EKM is a vendor of scientific informatics software in the Electronic Laboratory Notebook (ELN) and Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) market. Customers include academia, government and commercial pharmaceutical, biotech, medical device, chemical and engineering firms. The EKM/SAIC teaming arrangement will provide EKM customers with information technology services and local LABTrack support across the globe.
Many laboratories around the world have implemented LABTrack to enhance their R&D and discovery efforts. LABTrack offers the reporting and searching capabilities of a relational database while mirroring existing laboratory notebook practices. With electronic signature (21 CFR Part 11) functionality built-in and the optional AbsoluteProof(TM) automated protection scheme, LABTrack’s notebooks are viewed as legally acceptable documents in a court of law, before the PTO and compliant GxP (cGMP, GLP, etc). Combined with a wireless tablet PC, users gain complete mobility while working in a secure ELN environment.
About Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC):
SAIC is the largest employee-owned research and engineering company in the United States, with annual revenues of $7.2 billion and more than 43,000 employees in over 150 cities worldwide. SAIC engineers and scientists solve complex technical problems in national security, homeland security, energy, the environment, space, telecommunications, health care, and logistics. SAIC: FROM SCIENCE TO SOLUTIONS(TM)
For more information, please visit www.saic.com .
About LABTrack:
LABTrack is the ELN of choice used by research, analytical, production and academic laboratories. LABTrack is tailored to fit any organization’s processes and procedures, existing notebooks, templates and reports. The LABTrack suite of solutions includes software modules for Electronic Laboratory Notebook, Laboratory Information Management, manufacturing compliance (cGMP), bio-informatics and chem-informatics. EKM offers both Team and Enterprise versions of LABTrack. The Team version is an intranet server-based application designed for small to medium groups of researchers needing to collaborate in real time. The Enterprise version is a powerful and flexible intranet server based collaborative application that can be accessed by thousands of users in a large corporation or academic/research institution.
For more information, please visit www.labtrack.com .
About EKM:
Founded in 2000, San Diego-based EKM Corp. develops knowledge management solutions for the government and scientific sectors. EKM solutions are built on the foundation of the company’s award-winning knowledge discovery systems technology and utilize standard data system environments, including IBM, Microsoft and Oracle.
EKM has successfully deployed solutions to more than 200 locations around the United States. They are the recipient of IBM’s prestigious Beacon Award for the Best Integrated Business Solution for 2003, as well as a 2005 BIO-IT World Best of Show Finalist.
For more information, please visit www.ekmco.com .
